Incinerator would require GovGuam debt

12:15 PM,
Apr. 9, 2014

Proposed: Guam Resource Recovery Partners continues to work towards building a waste-to-energy facility on Guam. Despite a statement last month from Dave Sablan, a management representative of GRRP, saying "no money will be coming from the government of Guam or the public" to fund the project, the 214-page proposed agreement between the government of Guam and Guam Resource Recovery Partners contains language that the Legislature will need to authorize GovGuam to go into bond borrowing to fund part of building the facility. Pacific Daily News file photo

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Documents contradict recent public statements by an incinerator project's representative that the government of Guam won't go into debt or spend money on the project.

The 214-page proposed agreement between the government of Guam and Guam Resource Recovery Partners contains language that the Legislature will need to authorize GovGuam to go into bond borrowing to fund part of building the facility. The proposed agreement also states GRRP will pay GEDA to repay the bond with revenue from the proposed facility.

The project, estimated to cost $200 million, proposes to build a facility that ...